That doesn't even make sense. Universities don't go to books, look up a printout and then type it back into the computer and print it out again.
You are obviously much younger.
In the period we are talking about, the original entry transcripts were handwritten. They didn't take the card out of the binder when you got your grades for the next quarter, they handwrote them in. The certified transcripts were photocopies of the original with a certificate appended.
So the short answer is yes, they did it that way in 1961.
At some later date, they converted to the computer system they now have in place (somewhere in between, around 1961, they started taking the original entry transcripts out and typing the grades and credits in). I do not know whether they converted all historical records to the new system or only some of them and if the latter, I don't know how they decided which ones to convert.
But I do know (have personal knowledge) about an intervening date at which the copies that were produced were of the original entry documents from the old system.
So the newspaper article from 1961 was nonsense?
Assuming you mean the WND article, yes.
Although, to be fair to Corsi, he does have some excuse.
After I wrote him and pointed out the error to him and explained how it occurred, he then contacted the U of W and got a letter from them attesting to the fact that what they told him was correct and that I was wrong.
By then, I had figured out it probably didn't make any substantive difference so I abandoned the issue.
However fairly recently, someone, I suspect Fred or if not Fred knows who, decided to bury this issue and went to the U and got sufficient access to obtain the letter from the U that Fred references confirming that my version is correct and adopting my explanation for how it occurred as accurate. That letter is posted on this threat and Fred can point out to you where if you want to read it.
Her transcript is really clear--she registered for Night School class on September 19th just like everybody else who went to Night School fall quarter 1961;
no, it clearly says 8/19.
Not really--it says 9/19. Take it from me. Guaranteed.
I came across many other articles about the Washington Huskies football team who were on campus holding regular practices a month before the quarter started.
I have some personal knowledge about that also. Not only did practice start in August but we often played more than one game before school started. In 1960, I believe we were 3 and 0 before classes started.
But 61 was a down year--the team that won the Rose Bowl on January 1, 1961 and January 1, 1960 had graduated. Kermit Jorgensen, a running back in the pros, played quarterback and the Dogs were only 5 and 4 or something.